new measures are being taken to that to protect pedestrians on san francisco's streets. >> we have some more ran over my. this is clearing out. but cooler temperatures are all the way. >> there is a multi car accidents that occurred and this is leading into the bay bridge toll plaza. there are seven tow trucks on the scene. seven vehicles are blocking the allies. that is why the traffic is still backed up. we talked earlier about how long kid may take for this crash to

clear. i am not sure if this is going to be the case. it looks like we will be stuck for these delays in the drive time was 11 minutes. but now the drive time is 18 minutes. i would expect that number to double before too much longer. west 80 is already getting very called the. san have below is our alternate route. that is only going to work for 10 to 15 minutes because once this is loaded it will be slow. >> right now, people are waking up to low clouds and drizzle. we're not seeing any raider but we're looking at the possibility of isolated showers. the temperatures are in the '50s. partly cloudy conditions for the afternoon and by 3:00 p.m. los 60s along the coast. we do have the warming trend to talk

about. i will have details on that coming up. >> a richmond teacher arrested on suspicion of sex crimes with students at another school where he once worked. kron 4's will tran is live in richmond with the story. >> the police department showed up here at 8:00 a.m. yesterday and went to the classroom and arrested him on before this happened the school had no idea that there was an a investigation that allegations that he sexually abuse students even though they did a background check. the reason why it is because before this it was nothing on his record that set a red flag. to not hire him. so that he was a part of the staff. his 32 years

old. he was arrested for abusing still is pretty faces multiple charges he is in jail this morning held on it want on $4 million bail. we had a chance to speak to the president of the unified school district and this is what he had to say. >> we are just relieved and we are heartened that this individual was remote from the campus. i did not want to rush to judgment before they have a tryout but at least we know that the kids are out of harm's way. >> i can tell you that they did all these checks to what they did not do, they did not call his previous cool to the referenced. we get called the scores were heat was employed. they refuse to make a comment. >> i have not heard of any

job that they do not call the people before. >> they are not coming out that they drop the ball but that is something that they're looking into. they should have done this but even if they did, there is a good chance that previous school did not know. it was also two students came ford that in november, even as they did call at that time the investigation that all- star so lightly that school would told them everything is clean on their in. >> new this morning. a man was shot and killed last night in east oakland. it happened around 10-30 in the area of 11th street and east 24th street. the victim died at the scene. police are still searching for a gunman this morning. >> a pedestrian is hit and killed by a car in san jose. it happened last night around 9 o'clock near the

intersection of southbound almaden expressway and foxworth avenue. police say they found a man lying unconscious on the street he died a short time later. the driver is cooperating with the investigation. police have not released the identity of the victim at this point. >> and coming up at 6:30, we will get more information from kron 4's mike pelton. >> and san francisco mayor ed lee is expected to announce new pedestrian safety measures this morning at city hall. twenty-one pedestrians. and four cyclists. died in collisions with cars in san francisco last year. including a 6-year-old girl who was struck and killed on mayor lee to announce new pedestrian safety measures:

>> the city of san francisco is not try to determine how to respond to the family of lynne spalding, now that the family has taken legal action. if the family attorney announced, that they are filing a claim against the hospital and the san francisco sheriff is a department. >> the 67 hero patient was found dead and it's their role of the hospital more than two weeks after she went missing. the city now has 45 days to accept or reject the claim. >> residents who use a

popular east bay trail are on alert this morning after reports of a man was sexually assaulted a teenage girl there over the weekend. the attack happened on the alameda creek trail in fremont. investigators say sunday afternoon, a man walked up behind a 15 year- old who was out jogging on the trail. the suspect is described as a white man in his 30's, 5 ft. 10 in., 185 lbs., with a black beard. >> coming up on the kron4 new spread we are learning new details this morning on the mother who drove her van into the ocean in florida. what rescuers say was a clear sign that something was wrong. >> plus, a possible connection between two bodies found oakland last month, one of them buried, will police are saying about the case today.

>> welcome back. we are tracking a hot spot, very quickly the drive time has doubled on interstate 80 in the westbound direction. there was an early morning commute from hercules to berkeley. it is now 32 minutes for the same distance because of a multi car crashed. chp stated that this may be to separate accidents that are very close to each other. you are jammed up now all the way past golden gate fields in the west all right. pretty slow, it will tim >> a disgraced icon of san

francisco's gay community is sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. 67 year-old larry brinkin pleading guilty to a felony child pornography possession. as part a plea deal, prosecutors dropped a child porn distribution charge against him. he retired in 2010 after working for san francisco's human rights commission for 22 years. the board of supervisors passed a resolution in 2010 proclaiming that in san francisco because of his work advocating the l g b t residents. >> police are investigating the connection between a burned a body that was found outside of an oakland apartment this past weekend and woman who was killed inside the park a month ago. 77 hero to susan fong was

found dead inside her apartment, after an alleged home invasion. her nephew, richard fang, was at home at the time and claim that the intruders got away. please confirm the burned body falls outside the apartment early saturday morning is richards. they tell us, that his death appears to be a suicide. police would not say if he was a suspect in his son's murder. aunt's murder.

>> welcome back. this accident does not appear to have any progress this a occurred between pile street and the berkeley curved just ahead of the macarthur mayes. it a very quickly jumped up to 33 minutes. of course are the only alternative for you is to take highway 4 common across all but i am not sure if it makes sense to do this and come all the way around but if in fact your coming from vallejo or so on a county, it might make sense. >> these early hours, they do not have a big delays if you did want to use this as a call to a. that accident

is the reason why we see no traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. so light traffic, for people coming from the maze and coming from the nevis. that is the benefits. >> here's a look at the ride on the san mateo bridge, we have been incident freed but the volume is building. that means that the drive time is up to 13 minutes. >> the trip to the richmond san rafael bridge, was of traffic is still light and no backup for delays are getting into the toll plaza. the >> right now, we are dry as we look as storm tracker 4. there is a few areas of drizzle. this system has worked its way east, although we saw snow showers in the sierra nevada we're seeing, conditions and mild weather. right now, the temperatures are in the '50s. 54 degrees for san francisco. by the time we

reach the afternoon it would be a touch cooler. the alternate delegates 69 degrees. the east bay, partly cloudy conditions, after phil will be as 67 and 65 for castro valley. lows 60s along the coastline. warmer weather is back in the forecast. the seven day around the bay shows that will be in the '70s as we approach the weekend. how widespread 70's, spring right conditions a sunday we should see another system. we may see a few sprinkles but that is the extent of it. a morning clouds on monday and sunny skies for the middle of next week in effect for the most part the highs will be the upper 50s. >> a fort bragg general accused of sexual assault and other charges will plead guilty to three of the eight charges against him at the start of his military trial thursday. army brigadier general jeffrey sinclair is accused of the sexual assault of a female captain. among other

charges. >> this had absolutely no foundation, whatsoever. you view images or you possess images and so therefore, it is more likely you are born to act in accordance with the images. i mean, it is an absurd argument. >> the judge agreed. and now those images will be used to argue sinclair's guilt on sex assault charges. sinclair faces life in prison if convicted. >>

>> happening today. some senior commanders in the u-s military could be stripped of their powers to prosecute rapes and other serious offenses. today, the senate is voting on legislation aimed at curbing sexual assaults in the military. the measure is firmly opposed by the pentagon. which argues officers should have more responsibility, not less, to handle the troops they command. the bill is sponsored by democratic senator kirsten gillibrand. and reflects a deep frustration in congress over the military's failure to crackkdown on sexual assaults. gillibrand will need 60 votes to clear a filibuster. >> and.the san francisco bay conservation and development commission will discuss the plan to relocate the city's cruise ship terminal to pier 27. the 90 million dollar facility is designed to welcome thousands of cruise ship passengers with views

of the downtown skyline. phase one made the terminal ready for use during america's cup events. phase two will ready the terminal for cruise ships. along with creating a park on the pier's open space. >> new details of this morning on the mother who drove her minivan into the ocean in daytona beach. her sister says that the pregnant south carolina montauk about demons before leaving her home. officials said they received a call from that the mother who said she feared that her husband would harm hurt and the three children. two hours later, she drove into the ocean with the three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. we're also hearing from the people who risked their lives to save them. they say that there was a moment when it became clear what the mother was trying to do. >> police general to say

that the mother was just released from the hospital the day before and they were worried about her mental health. >> still ahead on kron 4 news. while more students are not getting to go to the college of their choice. >> the tech report will also be coming up. >> all the lanes have been opened on interstate 80 in the westbound direction. this accident has been clear but the damage has been this accident has been clear but the damage has been done. [uncle]this is hopscotch,okay? uncle go one,two,one,two,one two,one. [niece]okay! [uncle]okay? [niece]one,two three,four,five,six,seven,eight!

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almost half of the respondents said receiving financial aid was a crucial factor in why they enrolled where they did. that's an all-time high. >> it is time for the tech reports with gabe slate. >> nats - youtube video 'moms demand action' promo video - dramatic. >> "moms demand action" recently released this video intended to be a parody of facebook's 10th anniversary "look back" videos. the video tries to prove how facebook makes it easy for guns to be bought and sold online - without any criminal background checks, and sometimes, without even showing i.d. the organization ran an online petition that gained over 90,000 signatures. here's what they were upset about >> there are hundreds of public pages and groups on facebook that are geared toward gun enthusiast. some of the names of these pages imply something like, "guns for sale", or "sell machine guns" these public pages have a ton of interaction and huge numbers of followers. anyone can see them and message other users in the group. on these pages there is a lot of people who post guns for sale. people put there email

addresses or phone numbers right in the post to be contacted for the sale. there have been reports of transactions of guns sales taking place on these pages where the sellers did require i.d. the concern being felons or minors could be buying guns. >> this is richard burn righ ly he broke this story on venture beat. he showed me a text message exchange from his phone that he had with someone he met on one of these pages selling guns. 18-21 -25 reporter: ok how much is the rifle? facebooker: $550 with 90 rounds of ammo. 18-50-59 venture beat reporter - richard byrne reilly "the individual said, no you don't need i.d. it's $550 bucks i'm willing to meet you here and give you 90 rounds of ammunition, no questions asked, no i.d. " >> facebook released this press release today saying that they have heard the concerns of gun avocates and they are now going to take action. they are going to inact stricter regulations on pages that appear to promote the selling of guns and ammunition including having these pages include language remiding people of the importance of understanding and complying with relevant laws and regulations. >> if there is a post involving the sale a regulating item, like guns

are, they will limit access the age of 18. if they receive a report on facebook about a post promoting the private sale of a commonly regulated item, we will send a message to that person reminding him or her to comply with relevant laws and regulations and they will provide in-app education on instagram for those who search for sales or promotions of firearms. >> coming up on the kron4 newest. the warriors are looking to move to a new side. but it is not exactly the location that we have already been told about. ♪

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save 25% when you buy two scotts fertilizers -- >> welcome back. the time is 6:29 a.m.. there was a more time vehicle accident that was blocking the lanes in emeryville. this is between the berkeley curved and paul street. accident has

now been ruled and all lanes are now open. jackie is now on the scene. >> this was not clear altogether just yet. with a less minute or so, they had two legs that had stalled even though they did clear of the coalition now you are starting to see a stall in the number two lanes and the traffic is starting to back up again. we thought we had this clear but it is starting to back up again. >> we have this circled on the screen. you can see it in the westbound direction. the big problem here is that the backup is already pretty severe. >> the drive time is 46 minutes. that is already twice the normal commute

time for the west all right. any hope that this will improve is disappearing with the addition of a stalled car in the same location. the impact on the bay bridge, the westbound direction has a lot more traffic than the started to flow in. the metering lights are not activated. you can see on the screen that this traffic is filling into this level and lane. >> on this thursday we are waking up to cloud the conditions and we saw this a live shot. as of right now there are local files along the coast and the temperatures are in the '50s. 56 out the door in oakland. we are anticipating cooler conditions body after no. richmond will be as 63 degrees. i do not think we will see in the '70s today but partly cloudy skies. we

still have a warming trend to talk about for the weekend i will talk about the '70s coming up. >> a pedestrian was heading killed by car in san jose. it happened last night near the intersection of south bond all and then expressway and fox worthy ave. mike pelton is live at the same. >> this accident took place right behind it. the santa clara county is still a tried to notify the next six kid. the victim is 38 years old. he was struck and killed by a car and here's the same. there received a call about 9:00 p.m.. they arrived and found him unconscious and the road. he was declared dead in the driver of the car state

deficit and is cooperating. however, this is unclear whether not the driver will face a charge. it is unclear how fast he was going to rea. >> a federal judge refuses to block is sunnyvale law banning high capacity gun magazines. the judge turned down a request by five residents for a preliminary injunction. the lawsuit is sponsored by the nsa which claims that the ban violates their constitutional second and limit rights. the lawsuit challenging the sun belt law is one of the series that were filed from the nation by the nra. >> a bidding war could be

under way to buy pleasanton based safeway. usa today says that the private equity firm cerberus has been interested in by the supermarket chain. kroger is also is expressed an interest in buying some of the shares. experts say that with ceberus and competition to buy safeway, kroger might change their decision to just buy the entire safeway chain. >> the golden state warriors say they are pushing ahead with plans for an 18,000 seat of rain at pierce and 30 and 32 in san francisco. for san francisco mayor art agnos says that he supports putting the arena in a

parking lot a next at&t park. he also says a the size of the lot sits the ring up better. plus, he says that lot a is on solid ground instead of on a peer over the water. >> the warriors say that they have said it the lot as an alternative site. of course, the giants must be behind the lot a plan for it to move forward. >> san francisco mayor ed lee is expected to announce a pedestrian safety measures as this morning at city hall. the mayor has already announced an increase in a motorcycle officers and the release of a list of 50 most dangerous intersections. kron4 terisa estacio has more. >> a driver has been charged

in this case as city officials stated that the mayor wants to assure the public is safe and that is why he will announce this measure. terisa estacio kron4 mills. >> the white house is imposing visa restrictions on russians and the crimeans hold it says are threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. >> plus, why one states supreme court says it is illegal to take pictures of it woman's underskirlegal to tat wants underskirt.a woman's unde

>> welcome back. we are tracking big delays on the east shore freeway. we did in our last update told you

about a stall and it appears that that has been clear but the traffic is badly backed up. this is heading towards the bay bridge. there was a multi car crash still some blocking a few lines. i will update the drive times for you, 46 minutes from achilles' to berkeley this morning. >> the time is 6:40 a.m.. happening now, the white house has just imposed visa restrictions on russians because of military action in the ukraine. president obama signed an executive order authorizing sanctions on russia. meantime, the new leader says that thousands of pro russian forces now control all access to the peninsula and have blocked all of the military bases

that have not yet surrendered. >> painting and olympic champion as trigger happy and a responsible. that is how prosecutors are laid out their case in the oscar pistorius murder trial. one restaurant owner testified today to any event in january of last year when a gun accidentally went off as it was being passed to him under a table. meanwhile, the runners the defense team tried to poke holes in earlier testimony spread so far only six of the 107 state witnesses have testified. >> a rare skin infection has been traced to rossi full purchase at fish markets in new york city's three large chinese never does. city health officials say that there have been 30 reported cases of infection is caused

by a bacterium. symptoms include red, tender lamas and swelling under the skin of the hands or the arms. >> we will be right back.

>> welcome back. the time is 6:44 a.m.. here is a look that some of the top stories. >> the high court in massachusetts says it isn't not be legal to take pictures of a woman's skirt. the ruling stems from the case of a man charged twice was taking pictures of a woman on a bus. a statute states that it is only illegal if the person is next door partially naked. >> an elementary school teacher of the richmond has a arrested, accused of sexually abusing two students. police took him into custody yesterday. he had a clean a background check. >> a two-year old girl from ottawa, ontario was suspended from her day care for bringing a cheese

sandwich to school. the school had a strict " no outside food " policy. randy maris says that he did not know that his daughter had fool would try to looks too late. the day care defenses action same that the food policy is there to protect children and workers with food allergies. >> the damage has been done to the traffic, here's a live look towards paul st.. this is the all reference to westbound direction. there are people crossing the line so that they can get over. let's take a looked as some of the back up. the drive time is 46 minutes, it should be about 26. maybe even less than that. about

23 minutes at this time. we're looking at twice the normal drive time. there was the hot spot. the bay bridge, a game with all the traffic, it is not as badly backed up. your san mateo bridge ride, so far is problem free in the westbound direction as is the ride for the westbound 580 commute. it is now starting to back up in the cash lanes. this is right is to enter the toll plaza. you can see where the lanes spread apart. if >> satellite and radar shows of the storm system is pretty much out of here in the bay, it is pretty common, take a look at the temperatures. although we

recently dropped for santa rosa and napa up. oakland is very mild. as we can into the afternoon will see plenty of offers six is. as we slide into the east bay, partly cloudy skies for today. walnut creek will have a high of 67 and lows 60s along the coastline. high pressure will leave and we will see warmer weather for the weekend. >> the seven day around the bay shows widespread rain for the weekend and there is a system for sunday. >> we're watching wall street with our financial expert rob black. the dow jones as of 66 points. >> it comes end ed and easily adjusted. it has

been a very bad level. this is same that the worst should be behind us. it is only one month of recordings but the average indication is due to the jobs being cut and the ones who do have a job tend to live paycheck to paycheck. wall street is a benefit in and they're reacting positively. >> for let's talk about pandora been down. >> pandora announced they're listening hours. over the last four months, it is looking like things have went down. apple i tune, i heart is beating up the shares. now they're not going to report, that would not even know how it is don't but only to throw revenue. >> let's talk a lot staples,

they announced the there were born to close stores. >> they stated that half of their sales are coming from all line. >> and yes, it is changing their customers. i know a lot companies will rely on staples for their paper. the problem is that they have a lot up competition from costco. amazon also has a as well. staples has to-that's they're doing the same as a radio shack. they're trying to put most a lot faster. staples is interesting. but you'll have so many investment dollars. >> we have the monthly jobs report coming out tomorrow. we will see an unemployment changes. >> i think a lot of people will be hitting to the weather excuse. there has

not been a lot of hiring. we're not looking for a down system. we're only this is the mostortant day of the month. for wall street. >> we will check back with rob at 9:15 a.m. with winners and losers. >> joel bell is being honored by the giants' minor league affiliate. the san jose giants are featuring him on the first set of military trading cards. sales have until march the 12th to nominate current and former military members. the complete set of cards will

be unveiled at the san jose giants fan fest at the end of the month. >> first of all, there was a awesome shot! i love those old pictures. first, i watch that the video all day. maligned here is just so happy.\ he was a just so happy. >> the time is 6:52 a.m.. house some thieves got creative to steal an atm. >> here's a live look outside it was about a. westbou

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>> the time is 6:55 a.m.. as we head into the 7:00 a.m. hour. a man suspected in a triple homicide was arrested after police chasea police chas deputies say that the man stole a truck from a construction site and cut through a field to get away from them. he cannot get away from a news helicopter camera. he eventually is another car, loses control, jumps of the curb, a texas air and slams right into the corner of a house. the driver of the truck is accused of shooting four people, killing three of them. >> take a looked at this. crooks use a fork lift to make off with an atm at its

texas bank. you can see them drive right up. that will ride through the machine and lifted it off the base. they dropped it at one point, but they used a forklift to pick it back up again. the fbi released this video and hostess, saw a forklift driving down the road with an atm attached to it so that the contract and now. >> coming up on the kron4 new is. a iphone app that smells like a baking? that is in the world according to gary. >> plus, the steel beams come bearing into the back of a truck. we will tell you where this happened and show you more of the video. >> also coming up in people behaving badly we will talk about the golden gate park squirrels.

>> i am will tran who was live for a teacher was accused. i will tell you why this school did i catch this before they hired him. >> plus, new measures are being taken to protect pedestrians. >> we have a parking lot between vacaville an emeryville. george has the latest on this hot spot. >> this is a huge hot spot that george has been covering. >> it's started as an accident, what is the situation now? >> the damage hasn't been done. it was in